i see signs of hope around us. people, colleagues who have been protectors of gun rights, saying in the last few days, this has got to change. we've got to come together and reason together and act together and everything has to be on the table, including our gun laws. there's a poll in the washington post today, very striking to moat that for the first time, when people have been asked this question, after -- they've been asked it after a series of acts of mass violence, columbine, virginia tech, et cetera, aurora -- do you think this was an isolated act or does it say that something about more troubling conditions in our society? i'm paraphrasing. for the first time every other time miami said it was an isolate lated act of a madman or mad people. this time they said it reflects a deeper problem in our society, and i believe what causes that change is that 20 of the victims in newtown, connecticut, were young children, and there is not only a heartbreak across our country about this, not only anger, but i think t